John B. KANE

John B. 'Jeff' Kane

Died peacefully on July 2, 2016, in the Deltaview Home in Delta, BC, where he had been living since Maddy died in September, 2015.

Jeff was born in Stratford, Ontario, on September 8, 1925, the third youngest of 12 siblings, 8 of whom survived to adulthood. He attended elementary school in Stratford then Danforth Tech in Toronto, when his siblings and mother moved there when he was about 12. Like his brothers, Jeff excelled in hockey. After high school, he played semi-pro hockey in San Francisco and Indianapolis (at that time there were only 6 teams in the NHL). He then returned to Toronto and played for many years for the Winged Wheelers. He also trained as a pilot at the latter half of World War II, but the war ended before he went overseas. He was working for a bank when he met Maddy on a street car going to the Moore Park Tennis Club. She was working as a nurse then. They were married in 1951. Jeff had worked for CMHC and the TD Bank but went to work as a manager for General Motors at the urging of his brother-in-law, Lawrie Hastings. This led to travel all over Canada for his job, living in Moncton, where Barbara was born; Halifax, Chatham, Ontario and Toronto, where Candy and Jeffrey Lawrence 'Lare' were born; Regina, Ottawa, Montreal, London, Markham and Guelph. When Jeff retired from GM, he went into business with his brothers for awhile then went to work for Elections Canada as a returning officer. That led to him becoming a violence monitor in elections in Namibia, South Africa, Peru and Cambodia. He and Maddy then moved to Burlington to be closer to Candy and her family. They, then, followed Candy to Kelowna, BC, then to White Rock where they lived the last few years. While it is sad that he is gone, he had a great life and is now reunited with Maddy and Lare.

Donations may be made in Jeff's name to Doctors Without Borders.

A service for Maddy, Jeff and Lare is being held Saturday, July 16, 2016, at 11:00 a.m., at the Old Log Church Cemetery near Woodstock, Ontario. There will be a reception afterwards at one of the heritage farmhouses that is still in Maddy's family. More details are available by emailing Candy at ckane27@telus.net